Hello everyone
Hello everyone. Our Justice Minister, Jim O'Callaghan, was asked a question a couple of days ago in relation to the deportations from Ireland. Now, over the last few months we've seen, in particular, a lot of these deportation flights taking off, which are little more than public relations stunts. There's most recently there's been flights to Lithuania and Poland have taken off where people with criminal convictions have been sent back to their countries and they have a 10-year re-entry ban,.
But nearly next to impossible to enforce. At the same time, we've seen a massive increase in our population over the past few years. Net migration is growing year by year and at the same time we see record amounts of our own people emigrating because they can't afford to get by or live or have a home in Ireland. And with that, we've seen an increase in those in prison. This comes from the Irish Penal Reform Trust, which spoke to.
The massive overcrowding in Irish prisons over the past few years. And also, in the context of this, we can see about 17 to 18% of those in our prisons, these are the very common official figures, are foreign nationals. Now, we've seen many in many other countries people being sent back to their countries only with criminal criminal convictions. But Jim O'Callaghan's response was, uh, well, put put it mildly, uh, startling because he said that he has to take a case-by-case basis.
And he has to be responsible in the context of the free movement directive in the European Union. Now, we've spoken many times before about the free movement of capital has to be followed by the free movement of labor and this has been part of the neoliberal agenda of the European Union pursuing this in terms of race to the bottom and to push Ireland deeper into a low wage economy. Callaghan also said that he has to be.
Proportionate in terms of cases that are brought before him. And he said he gets the consent from the victims when many of these people in prison are in their final year of sentence. Now, this is a massive massive issue in Ireland in terms of what's taking place. We've seen in the recent days the amounts of horrific attacks and killings we've seen on the streets of Ireland, which is just really going out of control. Most recently, a woman was killed.
“Now, this is a massive massive issue in Ireland in terms of what's taking place”
In Clifton, County Galway a number of days ago
In Clifton, County Galway a number of days ago. Now, there was serious issues around that in terms of her had She had reported many many attacks in advance of what took place. And of course, our thoughts and prayers are with the victim, her family and friends. But this is nothing new in Ireland to what's taking place because it's just getting out of control. We had enough of our own issues in terms of context of what's taking place in.
Ireland in advance of what's taking on in terms of the mass immigration chaos. But now it's gone completely out of control. Now, at the same time, I can't have wasn't saying anything about people who come into Ireland. This has been corroborated by official statistics that over 80% of those who claim international protection, if not more, are economic migrants. And this tallies up what's taking place in Ireland in terms of the one of five workers are on low pay and many are.
Driven in to work on low pay, are driven because of people like Leo Varadkar messaging out in his nine or 10 different languages to get people to come to Ireland under false pretenses or drag them from many of their homelands to say the grass is greener on this side. Well, our own working class here people here in Ireland are struggling. So, rather than support those people in those countries and stand up for the interest of their countries, they're.
More interested in dragging them here and inviting them here at course at the taxpayers expense. Again, with subsidized accommodation and next payment next to nothing. It's a big subsidy for those employers who can pay very low wages. And also in the context of this the ripping up of documents which is a criminal offense, but nothing has followed up in relation to that when people come into Ireland. And so much for the Dublin regulation where they're sent back to the country where.
They first claim international protection. This will be all ripped up when the European Union migration and asylum pact comes into play uh on June the 12th. And that's so much for these international obligations they always keep talking talking about. In terms of the Oireachtas, which is the executive power of the state, and we look above the executive power of the state, we can also look at the Irish Constitution where it doesn't say anything about international obligations, does it?
The only time it says anything about international obligations or in terms of international disputes is to seek specific settlements to international disputes, but the Irish government have no interest in pursuing that agenda on the drive towards more militarism, but also on the drive towards pushing this agenda of their so-called international obligations under the Geneva uh refugee convention of uh 1951. So, this is what's taking place in Ireland.
For me and for many of us, national obligations
For me and for many of us, national obligations trump any international obligations. And you do your best to support as many as you can, but when you can't even look after so many people who are struggling in our society, what does this tell you? When money gets funneled upwards, it's a massive, massive money-making industry and any views speaks to any other narrative around this is just spinning myths and spinning the propaganda pushed on by the political establishment.
Who only represent those very wealthy billionaires and the corporations at the expense of ordinary working people here in Ireland. So, there you have it. That's O'Callaghan, T-shock in waiting, Fianna Fáil leader in waiting and people are saying he's dealing with this crisis. Well, nothing of the sort. As I already said it many times, those who created the crisis are now trying to come up with some decent solutions and as I stated earlier in an earlier video in.
Terms of the digital identification and the biometric data that they're trying to bring forward on the Lee, the forthcoming European Union migration and asylum pact which is going to be transposed into Irish law as the International Protection Bill 2026 on June the 12th. So, thanks for supporting my videos. Really appreciate them. Please share them and from Dublin today, it's Longford. Bye-bye.
